{"product_id":"9780316599436","title":"The Savage Mind by David Treuer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA searing exploration of American violence, interweaving memoir, history, and reportage to reveal the wound at the heart of our nation-and to offer hope that the country, and we, might be healed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of George Floyd's murder and the January 6 insurrection, as America seemed to be falling apart, David Treuer decided to hold himself and his family together the only way he knew how: he sat down to write a letter. What resulted is The Savage Mind, the most personal and powerful work of his storied literary career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we understand America, ourselves, and the impulses that seem intent on destroying both?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from Treuer's upbringing on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota to the experiences of his parents, a Jewish Holocaust refugee and the first American Indigenous woman judge, The Savage Mind reveals the terrifying essence of our nation: frontier violence, which has defined our country, our culture, and our very selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe frontier, Treuer shows, was a site of epic, phantasmagoric bloodshed, initiated by white settlers but perpetuated by all of us. And after the geographic frontier closed in the late 19th century, it did not vanish-quite the opposite. Today, Treuer explains, America's frontier-and all its violent pathologies-has migrated overseas and into our hearts and minds. The atrocities in Gaza and the school shootings in the American heartland are bound together by this invisible filament-one that Treuer makes visible in The Savage Mind, and which he offers hope for weaving, once and for all, into a better cloth\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67135411585197,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0577\/3364\/4461\/files\/9780316599436_10e99.jpg?v=1791224887","url":"https:\/\/underbrushbooks.com\/products\/9780316599436","provider":"Underbrush Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}